Function selector programmer

Claim 1

A COMPLETELY ELECTRONIC PROGRAMMABLE FUNCTION SELECTING SYSTEM COMPRISING: ADJUSTABLE SOLID STATE TIME SIGNAL GENERATION MEANS FOR PRODUCING AND AMPLIFYING REPETITIVE SIGNAL PULSES, EACH PULSE BEING INDICATIVE OF THE PASSAGE OF A PREDETERMINED TIME INTERVAL; A PLURALITY OF ELECTRONIC TIME ACCUMULATION AND INDICATION CIRCUITS COUPLED TO PRODUCE A SEQUENCE OF OPERATION INCREASING FROM THE FIRST TO THE LAST, EACH CIRCUIT HAVING A PLURALITY OF OUTPUTS WITH THE INPUT OF THE FIRST CIRCUIT COUPLED TO SAID TIME SIGNAL GENERATOR TO ACCUMULATE TIME BY PRODUCING ELECTRICAL INDICATIONS SEQUENTIALLY ON SAID PLURALITY OF OUTPUTS OF EACH TIME ACCUMULATION CIRCUIT; A PLURALITY OF PROGRAM CONTROL MEANS FOR EACH TIME ACCUMULATION MEANS, EACH PROGRAM CONTROL MEANS HAVING A PLURALITY OF INPUTS COUPLING CORRESPONDINGLY THE OUTPUTS OF THE RELATED TIME ACCUMULATION CIRCUIT AND EACH HAVING MEANS SETABLE TO PRODUCE CONTINUITY WITH ONE OF SAID INPUTS ON AN OUTPUT THEREOF TO CONDUCT SAID ELECTRICAL INDICATIONS; ELECTRONIC LOGIC CIRCUITRY HAVING INPUT MEANS COUPLED TO THE OUTPUTS OF ALL BUT AT LEAST TWO OF THE LAST OF SAID PLURALITY OF PROGRAM CONTROL MEANS FOR RECEIVING SAID ELECTRICAL INDICATIONS, AND HAVING OUTPUT MEANS FOR PROVIDING SIGNAL PULSES THEREON IN TIME COINCIDENCE WITH SAID ELECTRICAL INDICATIONS; ELECTRONIC LOAD SELECTION AND ACTUATION MEANS HAVING A DECADE COUNTING TUBE WITH THE GRID THEREOF COUPLED TO THE OUTPUT MEANS OF SAID LOGIC CIRCUITRY FOR RECEIVING SAID SIGNAL PULSES TO PULSE THE PLURALITY OF CATHODES THEREOF IN SEQUENCE, EACH CATHODE OUTPUT OF SAID DECADE COUNTING TUBE BEING COUPLED TO ACTUATE A LOAD CIRCUIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH SAID SIGNAL PULSES; PROGRAMMABLE ELECTRONIC RECYCLING CIRCUITRY HAVING INPUT MEANS COUPLED TO SAID OUTPUT OF AT LEAST ONE BUT NOT THE LAST OF SAID PROGRAM CONTROL MEANS, AND HAVING OUTPUT MEANS COUPLED THE FIRST CATHODE OF SAID DECADE COUNTING TUBE IN TO SAID LOAD SELECTION AND ACTUATION MEANS TO CAUSE SAID LOAD SELECTION AND ACTUATION MEANS TO RECYCLE SAID LOAD CIRCUITRY COUPLED THERETO IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PREARRANGED PROGRAM OF CONTINUITY BETWEEN SAID INPUTS AND SETABLE MEANS IN THE ASSOCIATED PROGRAM CONTROL MEANS; AND PROGRAMMABLE ELECTRONIC STOP CIRCUITRY HAVING INPUT MEANS COUPLED TO SAID OUTPUTS OF THE LAST OF SAID PROGRAM CONTROL MEANS AND HAVING OUTPUT MEANS COUPLED TO SAID LOAD SELECTION AND ACTUATION MEANS AND TO SAID TIME SIGNAL GENERATION MEANS TO PLACE SAID PROGRAMMABLE FUNCTION SELECTING SYSTEM IN A STATE OF SUSPENDED ACTIVITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PREARRANGED PROGRAM OF CONTINUITY BETWEEN SAID INPUTS AND SETABLE MEANS IN THE LAST OF SAID PLURALITY OF PROGRAM CONTROL MEANS.